Polio epidemic 1940s

    • [DOC File]MEDICINE

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      Polio epidemics occurred in 1949 and 1951. Hospitals around the city purchased iron lungs, which were large chambers to force normal breathing in polio victims. With the development of polio vaccines in 1954 and 1956, the threat of the disease subsided. Venereal disease was another concern of 20th-century health officials.


    • [DOC File]Step One - Hart Life Coaching

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      In her book, Anatomy of the Spirit 1, author Caroline Myss describes the polio . epidemic of the 1930s and 1940s as an expression of tribal energy. In 1929 the US . economy crashed and the Great Depression began. At this time Americans from all walks of …


    • [DOC File]Oklahoma Uniquely American

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      I. Polio epidemic of 1940s A. “infantile paralysis” or poliomyelitis. B. 19,000 cases in U.S. in 1944. C. Mostly affected young adults and children. D. Some recovered completely, others had permanent disabilities. I. Career of Robert Kerr. A. attorney and oilman. B. U.S. Senate ’48, ’54 and ‘60 (ask students for other points to add )


    • [DOC File]E5 AP Language and Composition

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      Salt, Sugar, Fat—Michael Moss: From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back.


    • [DOC File]12 grade reading level - ILRU

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      How did the polio epidemic in the 1940s and 50s influence the broader disability movement? What types of disabilities are being acquired today? How is this trend impacting scientific research? How is it impacting treatment for other disabling conditions? Research the concepts of “normalization” and “social role valorization.”


    • [DOC File]Special Issue Introduction

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      In the wake of the 1950’s polio epidemic and as veterans assimilated back into society, national attention focused on civilian needs. Federal rehabilitation management was moved from the United States Veterans Administration to the new Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Welch, 1995).


    • [DOC File]Environment and Public Health in a Time of Plague

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      A smallpox epidemic in 1900 in Massachusetts, a Plague epidemic in San Francisco in 1900, the Flu Pandemic of 1918, and the polio epidemic of the 1940s mark some of the most devastating diseases in the past century. See James G. Hodge, Jr., The Role of New Federalism and Public Health Law, 12 J.L. & Health 309 (1998). Id. at 332.


    • [DOC File]Personnel - WHO

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      One of the earliest concepts of the quality management movement was that of quality control of the product. Shewhart developed a method for statistical process control in the 1920s, forming the basis for our quality control procedures in the laboratory. Quality control methods were not applied in the laboratory until the 1940s.


    • [DOCX File]Kinesiology Portfolio

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      The polio epidemic continued and the United States’ involvement in World War II at the end of the decade resulted in additional wounded soldiers to rehabilitate. Wounded veterans who returned home with amputations, burns, fractures, and nerve/spinal cord …


    • Communism and epidemics - University of Exeter

      For example, in the year of the second largest polio epidemic in Hungary, 1959, ten times more people were diagnosed with hepatitis and twice as many patients died of that illness than did those with polio. In the same year, nearly four times as many people fell ill with influenza and its complications, with a death toll 140 times larger than ...


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